Wow! You take us on a journey here. I love that you start with feeling "the suffrage stir inside me" and I especially like the shatttering and this fulcrum that explains the loss: "Darkness seldom deter the men at the helmIt chillingly reveals their true selves."

This made me think of the qualities of gender as well as the right to vote - i do so hope there are more women who we can vote into power - your poem is testament to the thought and sensitivity most women possess